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1 " Een dode kan niet kapot zijn, een dode is dood, niet meer dan dat. Diegene die achterblijft is kapot. In wel duizend stukjes. "
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld , Mijn lieve gunsteling
2 " I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves. "
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld , The Discomfort of Evening
3 " Lots of people want to run away, but the ones who really do rarely announce it beforehand: they just go. "
4 " Nobody knows my heart. It's hidden deep side my coat, my skin, my ribs. My heart was important for nine months inside my mother's belly, but once I left the belly, everyone stopped caring whether it beat enough times per hour. No one worries when it stops or begins to beat fast, telling me there must be something wrong. "
5 " Even though it will feel uncomfortable for a while, but according to the pastor, discomfort is good. In discomfort we are real. "
6 " She felt I was good at putting myself in another’s shoes but not so great at kicking off my own and having fun. Sometimes I’d get stuck in the other person for too long because that was easier than staying inside myself. "
7 " We never really live in the seasons as we’re always busy with the next one. "
8 " Als iemand dichtbij staat of ligt krijg ik het gevoel dat ik iets moet bekennen, dat ik mij moet verantwoorden voor mijn aanwezigheid... "
9 " People need small problems in order to feel bigger. "
10 " She knows life the way tourists know a village: they don’t know how to find the dark alleyways, the path forbidden to trespassers "
11 " We find ourselves in loss and we are who we are – vulnerable beings, like stripped starling chicks that fall naked from their nests and hope they’ll be picked up again. "
12 " We praten niet over alles wat we nooit meer zullen vergeten. "
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
13 " My brother is slowly fading out of various minds, while he moves more and more into ours. "
14 " In de nacht is iedereen leeftijdsloos. "
15 " some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves. "
16 " Later I sometimes thought that this was when the emptiness began. It wasn’t because of Matthies’s death but those two days of Christmas that were given away in pans and empty Russian salad tubs. "
17 " Just normal,' Mum says, 'I'm just normal.'No, I think to myself, my mum's anything but normal. Even the omelette she's making right now is anything but normal. There are bits of eggshell in it and it's stuck to the bottom of the frying pan, and both the white and the yolk have dried out. She's stopped using butter and she's forgotten the salt and pepper again. "
18 " Even the Big Bear from my favourite picture book, who takes down the moon every night for the Little Bear who is afraid of the dark, is hibernating. "
19 " Don’t be so daft. You’re not going to die.’ She says it as though she’d begrudge it me, as though I’m not clever enough to die young. "
20 " I’m beginning to have more and more doubts about whether I find God nice enough to want to go and talk to Him. I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves. I think I’ll belong to that second group. "
